"In bed", translates to dealings early and often with bin Laden and other Saudis going back to the 1970's
americanfreepress.net
"President Bush and the bin Laden family have been connected through dubious business deals since 1977, when Salem, the head of the bin Laden family business, one of the biggest construction companies in the world, invested in Bush's start-up oil company, Arbusto Energy, Inc.
"Through a tangled web of Saudi multi-millionaires, Texas oilmen, and the infamous Bank of Credit and Commerce International, Bush was financially linked with the bin Laden family until Salem met an untimely end in a freak flying accident near San Antonio in 1988."
Besides oil deals, methods for extorting billions in petrodollars from weak Saudis by private defense contractors
bostonherald.com
"What is less known, however, is that for the last 25 years Saudi Arabia's rulers have also employed a handful of politically connected American companies to buttress the monarchy's military and internal security forces.
These secretive U.S. firms, sometimes referred to as ``spook outfits,'' earned billions of dollars over the last decade alone, equipping, training and managing virtually all branches of the Saudi Arabian armed forces."
"Bribery" influence is all over the place, for example:http://www.bostonherald.com/news/americas_new_war/saud12112001.htm
"Influence", judge for yourself, when a man's son is in the biggest campaign of his life, I doubt if he takes meetings to discuss the weather: "During the presidential campaign last year, former President George Bush [called on] Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia...Mr. Bush's secretary of state, James A. Baker III, recently met with a group of wealthy people at the elegant Lanesborough Hotel in London to explain the Florida vote count. '
truthout.com
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The $43m is here:
robertscheer.com
"Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you"
It is "debunked" here:
bostonphoenix.com
The only solution, resisted by the Bush administration for obvious reasons, is full, absolute disclosure of every dollar, every person in every program, information that is already in electronic form to be posted on an organized website. I want to be able to drill down to the dates and amounts of funds transfers published, with recipients names. You, the government, work for me. You are my servant, not vice-versa. Especially since I didn't vote for this transfer, it is coercion, and I should see what you are up to.
Bush Inc. have a different POV:http://www.coxnews.com/newsservice/columnists/t_teepen/1106-TEEPEN-COLUMN-COX.html
And even Bush's attorney's response is rather inadequate, failing the 21-day disclosure requirement, to provide more time to sanitize Enron, Saudi, and intel service meetings, probably
washingtonpost.com
The constant dollar price of oil would be far lower without the monopoly efforts of Saudi Arabia. Recall the 500% increase from $5 to $25 in 1972, which hasn't been reversed since then. If it were $5 today with the Royal monopoly, common sense says it would have been lower still. You don't think the monopoly has decreased the price, do you?
Substantial basing rights in Saudi Arabia only gives us the privilage of getting further involved in military practices that are none of our concern, nor to our benefit, except as military training excercises. We don't need the oil guarantees, we don't need to poke our fingers into failed terroristic countries, whose problems can only be solved by them, not us. Many are hypnotized into thinking we can and should resolve Indo-Paki problems, Israeli-Arab problems, but all that does is increase terrorist attacks on US soil, with the odd consequence that US citizens are paying for their own violent deaths.
Saudi Arabia isn't the only place for fundie Muslims, just the birthplace of it (Wahhabism), and the primary funding agent by orders of magnitude, without which they would not be dangerous to US citizens. Failed, impoverished terrorist economies have a hard time recruiting and training thousands of killers and projecting them around the world. Wealthy petrodollar princes concede to extortion and pay billions. The answer is to remove their petrodollars.
The "comparatively moderate" Saudi regime is fine, with the exception of paying for terrorism against the US citizens. And the fact that 80% of what is taught in schools is fundie Muslim teachings that the US is the enemy, and enemies should be killed. Otherwise, they're polite and moderate.
"There are no moderates:Dealing with Fundamentalist Islam"
danielpipes.org
Disadvantages of Saudi support are minor, since Congress and the administration are in agreement, and the wishes of the citizens of this country don't have influence.
Advantages of Saudi support are an unlimited pocketbook of US petrodollars recycled back into offshore partnerships, media campaigns, US business interests.
You weigh them, and see which is more important. |
